placenamesGarrycloyne
Garbhchluain
Lewis described fodder, manure and milling capacity in the Cork parish.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Garbhchluain · Irish · main form · validated name
- Garrycloyne · English · main form
Place & story
Feeding the dairy cattle
Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account of Garrycloyne parish in County Cork records extensive dairy farms and butter held in high regard. Cattle were kept in stalls and fed clover, turnips and tares. Manure from those stalls supplemented the lime used on the land. Lewis connected agricultural improvement with a local farming society and better roads, while noting that older practices persisted on some farms. [2]
Capacity and a projected route
The parish’s bolting mills were described as capable of producing six thousand barrels of flour a year. That was a capacity estimate, not a statement of measured annual output. Lewis also recorded the route of an intended Cork–Limerick canal passing through the parish; he did not describe a completed waterway in operation. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Muskerry East
- Barony
- Barretts
- Coordinates
- 51.95123, -8.57765
- Mapped area
- 23.81 km²
- Logainm ID
- 578 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Garrycloyne. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Garrycloyne, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.